flanger
(ˈflændʒə(r))
[f. flange v. + -er1.]
1. (See quot.)
| 1893 Labour Commission Gloss., Flangers, also called ‘boiler-smiths’, are men, in the shipbuilding industry, who bend the plate edges where angles cannot be made to fit. |
2. U.S. A vertical iron or steel bar for scraping snow and ice from the inside of rail-heads to make room for the wheel-flanges (Standard Dict.).
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Add: 3. Mus. A device which alters a sound signal by introducing a cyclically varying phase shift into one of two identical copies of the signal and recombining them (see *flanging vbl. n. 2). Cf. *phaser n.
| 1979 Washington Post 20 May n3/4 Ferry's voice turns inhuman as a flanger distorts it electronically. 1980 M. Ross-Trevor in Gammond & Horricks Music goes round & Round vi. 120 Listen to that vocal I put through the flanger. 1985 Internat. Musician June 37/3 Then I split the signal into stereo and use a stereo AMS echo, a flanger and a harmoniser. |